Full-length Collections

  • Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate (Ecco, 2023)

  • The Government Lake: Last Poems (Ecco, 2019)

  • Dome of the Hidden Pavilion (Ecco, 2015)

  • The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990-2010 (Ecco, 2012)

  • The Ghost Soldiers (Ecco, 2008)

  • Return to the City of White Donkeys (Ecco, 2004)

  • Memoir of the Hawk (Ecco, 2002)

  • Shroud of the Gnome (Ecco, 1997)

  • Worshipful Company of Fletchers: Poems (Ecco, 1994)

  • Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1991)

  • Distance from Loved Ones (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)

  • Reckoner (Wesleyan University Press, 1986)

  • Constant Defender (Ecco, 1983)

  • Riven Doggeries (Ecco, 1979)

  • Viper Jazz (Wesleyan University Press, 1976)

  • Absences: New Poems (Little, Brown & Co., 1972)

  • Hints to Pilgrims (Halty Ferguson, 1971)

  • The Oblivion Ha-Ha (Little, Brown & Co., 1970)

  • The Lost Pilot (Yale University Press, 1967)

Chapbooks and Limited Editions

  • The Trust (edited by James Haug, Scram Press, 2021)

  • The Meteor (Rain Taxi, 2016)

  • The Zoo Club (Rain Taxi, 2011)

  • Lost River (Sarabande Books, 2003)

  • Police Story (Rain Taxi, 1999)

  • Bewitched: 26 poems (Embers Handpress, illustration by Laurie Smith, 1989)

  • Just Shades (Parallel Editions, 1985, illustrated by John Alcorn)

  • Land of Little Sticks (Metacom Press, 1981)

  • The Rustling of Foliage: The Memory of Caresses (The Massachusetts Review, 1979)

  • Apology for Eating Geoffrey Movius’ Hyacinth (Unicorn Press, 1972)

  • Amnesia People (Little Balkans Press, 1970)

  • Wrong Songs (H. Ferguson, 1970)

  • Deaf Girl Playing (Pym-Randall Press, 1970)

  • Shepherds of the Mist (Black Sparrow Press, 1969)

  • Row with Your Hair (Black Sparrow Press, 1969)

  • The Torches (Unicorn Press, 1968)

  • Notes of Woe (Stone Wall Press, 1968)

  • The Destination (Pym-Randall Press, 1967)

Prose

  • Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee: 44 Stories (Verse Press, 2002)

  • The Route as Briefed (University of Michigan Press, 1999)

  • Hottentot Ossuary (Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974)

Collaborations

  • The Lost Epic of Arthur Davidson Ficke: The Author’s Annotations, Commentary, and Notes of Reference for A Millenium’s Teardrop by James Tate & Dara Wier (Waiting for Godot Books, 1999)

  • Lucky Darryl (Release Press, 1977, a novel co-written with Bill Knott)

  • Are You Ready, Mary Baker Eddy??? (Cloud Marauder Press, 1970, poems co-written with Bill Knott)

list of translations forthcoming